Category Archives: Music

This extensive roundup of MP3 blogs looks good! Must set a few downloading tonight!
I’ll have to figure out some way of recording meta data about the mp3 files if the files don’t have mp3 tags as one of the posts there suggests.
Possibly the simplest way is creating directories named after the bands and putting the songs there.

Maybe I should make this a family blog, Donal again comes up with the goods! He told me ages ago about CorkGigs.com but I always forgot to blog it. It’s an, “events listing for live music concerts and other performances in Cork”, although I don’t see the King of Hearts there anywhere. Owen, perhaps you’d like to change that?
Anyhow, that link’s going in my links section!
If you’re in the Cork area, you might like to know about the Listeners’ Choice Festival on Campus radio, starting on the 15th. Hmm, anyone know if Campus Radio can be picked up in Blarney?

Last night, as I mentioned previously we went to see “Oh! What a Night” in the Cork Opera House. In one word? Wow!
It’s a highly-charged musical set in 1970’s New York, mostly in a disco called Inferno and the auditioning for a movie about a new phenomenon called “disco dancing”!
The musical is all about the music, dancing, clothes and atmosphere of the 70s and it’s a funky look into an age past! The audience was dancing in the aisles by the end of the show, people were clapping along to the beat and not all the singing was from the stage!
If it comes to your city go see it. It’s only in Cork for a week, probably going on (or been to) Dublin, so go see it if you get a chance!

I’m a huge Queen fan so when I saw this analysis linked on delicious I had to look! Unfortunately for me, it goes into musical theory and other stuff I have no idea about (or interest in) so I gave up quarter of the way through!

I went to see Calexico the other night. They played in the Opera House here in Cork on Wednesday night and for some reason I forgot to blog this event! (oh yeah, you don’t need to know everything about me do you?)
Anyhow, Calexico were .. good, not great, but good. I think everyone was waiting for Alone Again Or which has been played quite often by Ryan Tubridy. They played that near the end of the night and thankfully I woke up just minutes before. Oh, did I forget to tell you I fell asleep? Sorry, the rest of their music just didn’t do anything for me. (Apologies to Calexico fans who come here via Google, leave a comment if you want to vent your anger!)
In fact, the support band, Fred were excellent! My foot tapped along to their tunes, they looked like they really enjoyed playing and there was good rapport (thanks pron@#linux) between band members.
On the way back to the car I bumped into one of Fred’s lovely violin players. She was giving directions to a group of lads over from Wales and I recognised her from earlier so we had a bit of a natter and I told her Fred rocked, Calexico sucked. I think she appreciated that!

Edit in 2023: Adding YouTube videos!

As previously reported here, IRMA sued CD Wow to stop them importing cheap music CDs into Ireland. This morning on the radio I heard that sad news that CD Wow have basically given up and they will add €3 to the price of every music CD bought by someone resident in Ireland. The Register has an update on that as it’s not available on rte.ie yet. A representative of CD Wow UK spoke on Radio 1 this morning and was quizzed about the size of the Irish market to which he dithered and was very uncomfortable answering. In the end he admitted that in the context of a global market, Ireland is small fry (my words, not his!) and he hoped a consumer group would do their fighting for them.
Of course, by the looks of things, they have enough trouble in the UK, and Germany without causing a fuss in Ireland too.
The news prompted a length discussion on the ILUG this afternoon, even branching into how generous music performers are with their music.
Ah sure, it doesn’t bother Internet users, don’t we all download our music illegally anyway?